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War, empire and slavery, 1770-1830

edited by Richard Bessel, Nicholas Guyatt and Jane Rendall

(War, culture and society, 1750-1850)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

The imperial warfare of the period 1770-1830, including the American wars of independence and the Napoleonic wars, affected every continent. Covering southern India, the Caribbean, North and South America, and southern Africa, this volume explores the impact of revolutionary wars and how people's identities were shaped by their experiences.

Table of Contents

  • Maps and Illustrations Series Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: War, Empire and Slavery, 1770–1830
  • R.Bessel , N.Guyatt & J.Rendall PART I: A WORLD IN UPHEAVAL The 'Revolutionary Age' in the Wider World, c. 1790–1830
  • C.A.Bayly The Revolutionary Abolitionists of Haiti
  • L.Dubois Race and Slavery in the Making of Arab France, 1802–1815
  • I.Coller The Making of Warriors: The Militarization of the Rio de la Plata, 1806–1807
  • A.Rabinovich PART II: FREEDOM AND CAPTIVITY The French Conspiracy: Paranoia and Opportunism on the Eve of Independence in Buenos Aires
  • L.L.Johnson Armed with Swords and Ostrich Feathers: Militarism and Cultural Revolution in the Cape Slave Uprising of 1808
  • N.Worden Jacques-Pierre Brissot and the Fate of Atlantic Antislavery during the Age of Revolutionary Wars
  • M-J.Rossignol Borderlands of Empire, Borderlands of Race
  • J.Winch PART III: IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE The French Revolutionary Wars in the Spanish American Imagination, 1810–1830
  • R.Earle Old Subjects, New Subjects, and Non-Subjects: Silences and Subjecthood in Late Eighteenth-Century Grenada
  • C.Anderson The Russian Empire: Military Encounters and National Identity
  • J.Hartley War, Empire, and the 'Other': Iranian-European Encounters in the 'Napoleonic' Era'
  • J.de Groot Patriotism, Painting and the Portuguese Empire during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
  • F.Vlachou Index

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